Arguably the nation's most famous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was an accomplished ... the slayer of a tyrant. Booth was a Confederate sympathizer during the war. Fiercely opposed to abolition ...

Manhunt dramatizes one of the most influential moments in American history—the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John ... into post-Civil War America as it tells the story of Booth’s ...

John Wilkes Booth was a racist murderer, but that apparently wasn’t the worst thing about him. The worst thing was that he used “the N-word.” Isn’t that a bizarre thing to say? Not too ...

Overall, Douglass was a vital voice for the African American cause during and after the Civil War. After John Wilkes Booth's post-assassination escape from Washington, he fled with a specific ...

The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of ... ends in Washington, where John Wilkes Booth begins to dream of vengeance ...